This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838. Excerpt: ... we may pronounce with certainty that justice and equity are on the side of the United States in this controversy. Nor are the above, the only concessions of the British Government. Under the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded in 1794, commissioners were appointed by the two nations to decide, "what river was truly intended under the name of the river St. Croix, mentioned in the treaty of peace."--The very fact that no other question was raised at that time, is an admission by both parties that the rest of the boundary was well understood. In fact, the British commissioners under that treaty allowed expressly, that the northwest angle of Nova Scotia was upon the highlands north of the St. John's, and near the sources of the rivers that flow into the St. Lawrence. The British agent in his argument to the commissioners appointed under the treaty of 1794, uses this language--" The limits of the Province of Nova Scotia at the lime of the treaty of peace, were the same that were established, when the province was anciently and originally created and named, in every respect, excepting the island of St. John, and the northern boundary line, which, by the creation of the province of Quebec, after the peace of 1763, was altered from the southern bank of the river St. Lawrence to the highlands described in the article of the treaty of peace, now under consideration; and further, that with these exceptions, there never was but one, and the same tract of country and islands, that formed the province of Nova Scotia." Here the British agent acknowledges that, at the time of the treaty, the province of Nova Scotia was bounded north by the highlands. Again he says, "The province of Nova Scotia at the time of the treaty of 1783, was bounded to the northwa...
